Culture and State in Chinese History: Conventions, Accommodations, and Critiques (original) (raw)
1999, The American Historical Review
Institutional Bases for Social Order 113 The Legacy of the Search for Material and Moral Control 116 An Agrarian Empire's Decline into Modernity 122 Political Economies in Europe and China 127 Raising Revenues: Common Challenges, Different Capacities 129 Chinese Political Economy in the Late Imperial Period 135 European Political Economies: From "Just" Prices to Just Prices 139 Comparing Chinese and European Political Economies 142 Industrialization in Capitalist and Agrarian Economies 149 7 The Chinese State after 1850 153 State Making in Nineteenth-Century China 154 Chinese Trajectories of State Making in the Twentieth Century 158 State (Re)building and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century China 166 8 China after 1949 179 State-Economy Relations 181 State-Bureaucracy Relations 190 State and Ideology 194 The Persistence of the Chinese State 198 History and Theory 202 Contents vii 10 I " H11I'0I 'all stat ' 111:11 in nn I 01 Itallsm fl' m tl cir privileged positions as unlver 111\'/111 tll '111' In worll !listo)' , bur it (f~1'8 11' ,PI 1''' 11: ompnri-'Of course even in the 1950s, as the Japanese economy recovered from the catastrophe of World War Il, the long-term base of economic development was firmly placed. But this did not resolve the challenge of embracing Japanese cultural traits in a concept of "modernization." See, for example, John W. Hall 1965. 2A range of interpretations locate Japan's economic success in the country's particular history and culture. They include works as diverse as Morishima 1982 and Dore 1987.
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